User:Cukie Gherkin/Cho Hyun-ju

Cukie Gherkin/Cho Hyun-ju
Cukie Gherkin/Cho Hyun-ju
Squid Game character
First appearance	Squid Game season 2
Created by	Hwang Dong-hyuk
In-universe information
Alias	Player 230
Occupation	Soldier
Nationality	Korean

Cho Hyun-ju, also known as Player 120, is a character in the second season of the 2020 Netflix series Squid Game.

Appearances

Cho Hyun-ju appears in the second season of Squid Game, a trans woman who formerly served as a soldier in the South Korean military as a sergeant until she was discharged for wanting to transition. She was invited to join a game called Squid Game due to the financial strain, as well as her desire to move to Thailand and get gender-affirming surgery. During the first game, she along with the other 455 players discover that losing has lethal consequences. At the end, she assists protagonist Seong Gi-hun rescue a man who had been shot. During the interim, the surviving players learn that the total reward is 45,600,000,000 won, and they would receive 100 million won per person who died split between the survivors (91,000,000,000 won). Given the choice to vote to stay or leave, she votes to stay, and the game continues by a slim majority. She later befriends a woman named Kim Young-mi, who asks her to join her, later adding Jang Geum-ja, her son Park Yong-sik, and a shaman named Seon-nyeo, where they have to complete a series of five games while chained side by side. Hyun-ju assists the other members with advice and emotional support.

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